On Dec 19, 8:10*am, wrote:
Interesting, but is there anything new there? Soaring books published
twenty years ago have drawings depicting the sinking air around
thermals as well as the idea that thermals are streams of bubbles vs
columns. Maybe its just that now they are taking this into account in
the models?

Mike

Yes, there's a lot here because now they have a mathematical model for
it.
We've always known it as lore, intuition, etc., but for weather and
climate
models fair weather clouds are just fudge factors. Now (at least on
the
fine scale) they can accurately model them.